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Springs Preserve exhibit explores lives of trees

Area residents are invited to learn all about trees as the Springs Preserve welcomes the Arbor Day Foundation and Dimensions Educational Research Foundation’s traveling exhibit “Exploring Trees Inside and Out.”

The exhibit opens Saturday and continues through Sept. 5

The 2,500-square-foot, larger-than-life, interactive exhibit gives kids and their parents the opportunity to experience trees as they never have before. While visiting the exhibit, they can take a walk through an enlarged tree trunk and through the veins of leaves. They will explore the sights, sounds and scents of trees from the bird’s eye view on a giant rope canopy and experience the rush of the flow of water during photosynthesis.

The exhibit will be housed in the Origen Museum, which is open from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. daily.

Admission to the Springs Preserve’s museums and exhibits is $4.95 for children 5-17, $8.95 for students 18 and older and seniors 65 and older, and $9.95 for adults.

For more information visit www.springspreserve.org or call 822-7700.